Sentence examples for cumulative acts from inspiring English sources

The appellate court said it was "problematic" applying the two-year statute of limitations in a suit that charged "cumulative" acts that the plaintiff said resulted in a continuing hostile work environment.

Many cumulative acts born of prejudice or ignorance could have readily discouraged or derailed me as I progressed through my career as one of a "few" women or an "only" or a "first" black woman.

In fact, progress in the context of postmodernism is an oxymoron, as cumulative acts of deconstruction take us farther from, not closer to, actionable intelligence that makes living a richer and healthier experience.

Those who want a better business model for online content, i.e. one that isn't based on increasingly invasive surveillance and increasingly insidious advertising, have long held up the hope that micropayments could power an alternative rewards-based system, where the cumulative act of lots of users donating small amounts to the services they use and love adds up to something substantial.

"Among many mass killers, the triple privileges of white heterosexual masculinity which make subsequent life course losses more unexpected and thus more painfully shameful ultimately buckle under the failures of downward mobility and result in a final cumulative act of violence to stave off subordinated masculinity," the authors wrote.

The cumulative number of general traumatic exposures (ORadj = 1.18, 95% C.I. = 1.03, 1.33) and cumulative number of forced acts of violence (ORadj = 2.24, 95% C.I. = 1.63, 3.08) were associated with increased odds of meeting the criteria for symptoms of depression among abductees.

Cumulative number of traumatic events witnessed (ORadj = 1.21, 95% C.I. = 1.10, 1.32) and cumulative number of forced acts of violence (ORadj = 1.43, 95% C.I. = 1.18, 1.74) among abductees were associated with meeting criteria for symptoms of PTSD.

Against that view, Bhaskara upheld the doctrine of the "cumulative effect of acts and knowledge" (jnana-karma-samuccaya) and declared that a person should withdraw only after an active life in which he fulfilled his obligations.

The Aligned Cumulative Transcript Graph (ACT-Graph) is a weighted directed acyclic multigraph in which nodes correspond to genomic coordinates of splice start or end sites or to transcription start or end sites.

This new play by Rachel Wagstaff follows the Coward format of three acts, its cumulative effect much like that of the Bliss family in "Hay Fever" on their hapless guests: It isn't long before one is yearning to escape.

As with the figures for numbers of sex acts, the cumulative figures for reported gel use conceal individual variations in reporting.